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Storage of Photos

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May 7, 2021
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What is the best Adobe product to store photos? I dont need a lot of editing options, just more for storage. I also want the capability to be able to upload these photos to Snapfish to create photo albums.

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davescm

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One more thing - neither Lightroom Classic nor Bridge store your photos. They are stored on your drives. Bridge and Lightroom are great for cataloguing, keywording and searching for photos. Lightroom's cataloguing is more independent of the hard drive folder set up than Bridge, although I still find it useful to set up my hard drive folders sensibly.

Dave

Derek Cross

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Dave reminds us of an important point, I would add don't rely on one storage method, perhaps the computer for current work with back-up to a local external drive and possible cloud storage as well.

War Unicorn

Community Expert

My brain screamed, "Bridge," just for its DAM options, even though there's no export directly to websites like Snapfish (if I don't include Stock or Portfolio, which is slightly different). You can, of course, create an export preset to prepare those images for publishing.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

I think it depends on your kind of work you do. If you're a photographer, with thousands of Photographs, then a cataloguing and a developing system like Lightroom will suit you best. But if you're a graphic designer with lots of different kinds of formats, Bridge will suit you best, especially as you'll be working with Photoshop, with its facilities like Layers and integrating with other applications such as InDesign and Illustrator and more.

Jumpenjax

Community Expert

If you like using Adobe products I would recommend Lightroom. It gives you a lot of options from cataloging to edit. If you have creative cloud storage, you can store them in the cloud.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

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Curtis5E9CAuthor

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Thank you.

davescm

Community Expert

Do you want to store your images locally (on your PC) or upload them and store them on the cloud?

Dave

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Curtis5E9CAuthor

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I would rather store them locally.

I did just learn though that Snapfish has an option to upload photos from Google Photos. That may be even easier than Adobe.

davescm

Community Expert

For storing locally, I would recommend Lightroom Classic. It is great for cataloguing images across multiple hard drives.

It is available on subscription as part of the Photography Plan. That gives you both Photoshop and Lightroom for less than the cost of a single application.

Dave

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